Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster...

prodigy Samuel Reshevsky. He encouraged Reshevsky to earn a university degree so as not to be completely dependent upon chess for his living. Reshevsky did...

and cryptologist Samuel Reshevsky (1911–1992), Polish-born American chess player This page lists people with the surname Reshevsky. If an internal link...

1956, his rating was a modest 1726, over 900 points below top-rated Samuel Reshevsky (2663). Fischer's first real tournament success occurred in July 1956...

whom won matches against strong adult opponents at the age of 12, and Samuel Reshevsky (1911–1992), who was giving simultaneous exhibitions at the age of...

Savielly Tartakower, Akiba Rubinstein, Gyula Breyer, Rudolf Spielmann, Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, David Bronstein, and Miguel Najdorf. Arpad Elo, the inventor...

In an objectively drawn endgame against Arnold Denker, the flag on Reshevsky's clock fell, which should have resulted in his losing on time. The tournament...

Black's strategy carried out successfully is the game Mikhail Botvinnik–Samuel Reshevsky from the 1948 World Chess Championship, which reached the position...

(peak years 1948–1955) Viktor Korchnoi, 2658 (peak years 1974–1981) Samuel Reshevsky, 2655 (peak years 1953–1961) Vasyl Ivanchuk, 2654 (peak years 1990–1992)...

Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó. Players still...

next four places. There was a three-way tie for sixth place among Samuel Reshevsky, Vlastimil Hort, and Leonid Stein, who played a round-robin playoff...

Keres and Salo Flohr (from the Soviet Union); and Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky (from the USA). The proposal was modified slightly, in that the Soviet...

round-robin with 6 of the world's top 36 players, and it was won by Samuel Reshevsky. Byrne became an International Master based on his results at the 1952...

(White) is defending an endgame three pawns down, but played Qf2!, when Samuel Reshevsky (Black) had nothing better than ...Qxf2 stalemate. In The Game of the...

known examples involves a swindle in a game by Larry Evans versus Samuel Reshevsky. Evans sacrificed his queen on move 49 and offered his rook on move...

that time he achieved the second-highest rating in the U.S., behind Samuel Reshevsky, against whom Byrne had a winning record. He was awarded the International...

The Marshall Chess Club donated the trophy, and the first winner was Samuel Reshevsky. Marshall was best known for his great tactical skill. One aspect of...

tournament, the KGB handlers started to worry that the American candidate, Samuel Reshevsky, would win, and began pressuring some of the Soviet players to throw...

level. He won at Kraków 1959 with 8½/11, shared 1st–2nd places with GM Samuel Reshevsky at Buenos Aires 1960 with 13/19, and won at Córdoba, Argentina 1960...

World Champion Max Euwe and rising American stars Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky, and 1 point ahead of ex-champion Alexander Alekhine. This was the...

cartoonist Jermaine Paul, singer on NBC's The Voice Doc Powell, musician Samuel Reshevsky, chess grandmaster Saigon, rapper Rob Senderoff, college basketball...

seven US Opens at Minneapolis 1932 with 9½/11, half a point ahead of Samuel Reshevsky; this tournament was known as the Western Open at the time. Fine played...

July 1936; sixth, behind Capablanca, Mikhail Botvinnik, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky, and Euwe at Nottingham in August 1936; third, behind Euwe and Fine...

Smith (1973), and Richard Roberts, Harold Schonberg, Al Horowitz & Samuel Reshevsky (1972) give it "?!" (a dubious move). Kasparov 2004b, p. 434 Gligorić...

Olympiad. In 1951, Evans first won the U.S. Championship, ahead of Samuel Reshevsky, who had tied for 3rd–4th in the 1948 World Championship match-tournament...

of the best-known examples of the desperado is the game Larry Evans–Samuel Reshevsky that was dubbed "The Swindle of the Century". Evans sacrificed his...

(born 1970), Orthodox rabbi Shmuel Rodensky (1902–1989), Israeli actor Samuel Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; 1911–1992), Polish American chess player Shmuel...

scored 7½/14 for a shared 3rd–4th place; the winners were Gligorić and Samuel Reshevsky. At the 1957 Wageningen Zonal, he tied for 3rd–4th places, along with...

Kemeri with 11½/17 (+8−2=7), as Salo Flohr, Vladimirs Petrovs and Samuel Reshevsky won. Then he tied 2nd–4th in Pärnu with 4½/7 (+3−1=3). This successful...

Reshevsky vs. Petrosian, 1953 One of Petrosian's most famous examples of the positional exchange sacrifice is from his game against Samuel Reshevsky in...